Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 September 1937 — Page 2
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No Fatalities in Marion County Reported Over Week-Ead. (Continued trom Page One) day were charged with spéeding.
‘Twenty others were arrested for Tunning red lights or preferential
or Owens, 19, 844. Wright St., -and Morris Pierce, 25, 2743 Shelby St., were injured yesterday when an automobile in which they were riding skidded and: overturned in a ditch on U. 8. 31 south of Indianapolis. Wa ‘were treated in City Hospital.
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200 Die in Nation, Check Reveals
(Copyright, 1937, by United Press) Violence had brought death to more than 200 persons in 30 states .as the nation entered the last day .of the last holiday week-end of the Summer today. : Airplane and automobile accidents, lightning, drownings, suicides, even a duel, added to the + three-day toll which the Nation‘al Safety Council predicted would .reach 1000. Automobile accidents alone claimed 137 lives in states and the District of Cdlumbia Saturday and Sunday. Michigan and California reported 21 automobile deaths for ‘the two days, and Illinois 13 and New York 12. Two Navy fliers were killed when their plane crashed into an open - field ‘near FPriendsville, Md. A licensed flier and a student were killed in an attempted takeoff at : [ lis, Minn,
Four Killed by Bolt
- Two golfers and two caddies were ‘killed by lightning when they ‘sought refuge from a storm under a tree on a.Pittsburgh course. An--other caddy fell into a flooded ditch and drowned at Meadville, Pa. Lightning killed, Henry Lamonte Bole, in Lamhi, Ida. rey A man leaped to his death from the 24th floor of Louisiana’s State House, in Baton Rouge. Nine were injured, but none hurt when Andrew Solis crashed his car into a ditch to avoid hitting a train at a Chicago crossing. DEATHS BY STATES x MiscelAuto laneous
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A gun fight, following a $1297 payroll robbery of a Springfield, O., restaurant, resulted in the death of two officers and a bandit, as police, shown above, grimly surrounded one of the robbers a few minutes after the battle, shot it out with a quartet
of hold-up men at Crystal Lake west of the ‘city. Chief Deputy Edward Furry, Clark County, and Martin Randolph, left below, 38, Springfield policemen, were killed, and Martin Donnelly, below right, was wounded. The bandid shown above alse was wounded, while two others escaped.
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The second meeting of the 150pound Senior Football League sponsored by William Stewart, athletic director of the English Avenue Boys” Club, will be held Wednesday night, Sept. 8, at 8 p. m. at 1400 English Ave. : Five teams have ehtered the league and there is room for three additional squads. Any team desiring to enter should have a representative present Wednesday.
BUMPY ROADWAY IS CHECK ON SPEEDING
NEWTON, Mass., Sept. 6 (U. P). —Motorists driving along Chestnut Hill Road either ga slow, or run. the risk of breaking a spring. Four-inch humps {of tar and gravel have been raised in the road to discourage speeders. The knobs are painted white and signs explain the movel traffic regulators. At a moderate speed the bumps
cannot be felt, but jolts and jars accompany a fast passage.
MONTAGUE HEARING ET ELIZABETHTOWN; N. Y. Sept. 6 (U. P).—John Montague, Hollywood’s golf wizard, wiil be arraigned tomorrow on a charge oi complicity in a $7000 roadhouse- robkers in 1930.
HELD ON GAMING CHARGE Marvin Brown, 37, of 1201 E. 19th St., was arrested on charges of keeping a gaming house and eight other men were charged with gaming when police raided ‘a pool room op-
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‘Owner of Trailer Converts It
Into Gas Execution Chamber
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 6 (U. P).—Carl B. Yeargin converted his auto- ‘ mobile trailer into a lethal gas chamber yesterday and died like a con-
demned criminal by his own hand. "me whole. While he lay on the floor waiti
wrote a note to a woman named “Jean.”
He timed his death with an alarm clock and left oné request: “Bury
ng for the clock to execute him, he And after he had died, a woman
who signed her name
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: slipped a note to him under the | am sorry I couldn't come to the
trailer door, evidently unaware that
~~ he was dead. He was 44, a machinist from! *-South Carolina.
His device consisted of two sticks,
one attached to the key stem of the | alarm clock and the other dangling | ‘from a piece of string. With a “sack of potassium cyanide tablets | “tied to it. As the alarm went off, | *the string unwound antl the cyanide was lowered into a sugar bowl con- | taining a sulphuric acid solution. | = The fusion created the same deadly gas, and in much the same man“ner, that states use in executions. ~~ On the door of the trailer he had posted the warning: d “Danger! Poison. Only the law “shall enter here.” His motive was obscure. Je left notes written on cardboards saying: | “I am in the best of health. That why I have the courage to do
"ent would be a hideous mistake “for anyone to think I did this job on account of anyone—I am doing “%his because of the treacherous that has been substituted for e in which I have failed to find Arve life with those I have ex- “ pected,” he wrote. 3s “Some say die and go to hell. I “say die and get out of hell. send crazy but I see where I am = pise over a lot of others. I can't “lve without playing someone's fool, 80 I refuse.” v= ‘Beside his body on the floor, aptly his last work, was the note Jean reading: “Bye bye, my little Jewish girl. I
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hangout tonight, but I enjoyed last | Saturday night so much. Please for- | give me for what I am doing as I am just-watching for the end. Carl.” On the back of this note he wrote: “Do not cut my body. Bury me whole.” ’ Police believed that thé woman escaped death only because she slipped her note under the trailer door instead of entering. She had ignored the ‘warning sign. Her note said: “Dé not get the impression I'm trying to run after you. But my father wanted me to ask you up for dinner, which is the truth. He went in and I ‘eannot find you home, but the sign is a puzzle, hence the note. I will explain later, Jean.”
BURGLAR GET LOOT OF $300
Clothing and Dummy Taken
From Smashed Window
On North Side.
Burglars : who smashed a large display window in a dress shop at 2702 N. Meridian ; escaped with clothing and a wax dummy valued at $300, police were told today. Two men, who hurled bricks through the window yesterday, fled in an automobile. : James E. Slinger, 27, of 16 N. Wal-
cott St. reported to police. yester-
day that two men threatened him with a gun as he was walking on Indiana Ave. forced him to walk down an alley, took $30 from him.
Three men ‘who leaped on the running board of his car slugged George Pugh, 52, of 3944 Capitol Ave, .and robbed him of $67 yesterday, he reported to police. Mr, Pugh said he was driving in the 400 block on N. Senate Ave. when the
| robbery occurred. He was treated
in City Hospital. Vandals Break Into Church Vandals who broke into the New
Liberty Baptist Church, Ninth and |
West Sts., Saturday caused damage estimated at more than $50, police were told. The intruders set fire to the covers of several chairs, broke two chandeliers, damaged a bookcase and broke open a piano. The clanging of a burglar alarm frightened away thieves who had broken into a tavern at 1442 N. Senate Ave. and stacked up nine cases of whisky, according to police.
{Some whisky and a small amount |§
of cash were missing, John Nachoff, 518 Luett St. tavern operator, reported.
Cigarets, cigars and whisky val-
ued at $120 wePe stolen by thieves who broke into a drug store at 1701
E. Michigan St. Saturday.
COURT TEST FACES STATE WEIGHT TAX
Court action to test the constitutionality of the state Weight Tax Law, passed at the 1937 Legislature, is being prepared by the Private Truck Ownérs of Indiana, Inc, it
was announced today by C. W.
Abraham, organization secretary. The law is to be attacked on grounds that enforcement adds new ‘hazards to highway travel, he said. Revenue produced by the tax will not compensate for road damage, ihe group secretary i
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BUDAPEST, Sept. 6 (U. P.)— Bajesa, is a little ‘known place in Hungary; but it claims to have established a world record in having the ungest grandmother in the world. She Frau Minario, 30. She married when she was 14, and a year later a child was born. When the child 14, she married, and a year later she had a child, too. Frau Minario hopes to be a greatgrandmother before she is 45.
HEADACHE REVEALS | SHOT AFTER AFTER 2 DAYS
, BROOKINGS, S. D, Sept. 6 (U. —A -22-caliber bullet remained er in Warren Clark’s head recenfly for two days before he found
the ca of his prolonged headsche.” G to a doctor affer being struck | in the head with what he thought was a.slingshot rock, Clark had the scalp wound stitched together, : A terrific headache sent him back; when the cause was revealed.
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Diei in Police, Bandit Gun Battle
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PASTORS CALL FOR FAIR PLAY ~ INHJOB STRIFE
‘Jesus Might or ght or Might Not Carry Union Card,” Cleric Says.
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ranks free from radicalism,” he|'
said. “It is the duty of the Church to see that the laborer is remembered. The poor, the needy and the worker, generally, are but tools of the
“Social justice cannot be legislated,” the Rev. Guy Carpenter, Central Avenue M. E. pastor, told his congregation. “It is not the church's business to take sides in any dispute, but to bring about conditions to avoid the difficulties. “The ultimate but slow solution to the labor situation is to develop the individual character the church. The breach is widening under present conditions. “Justice for all and a consideration of their weaknesses without taking advantage of them, should follow the application of Christian principles.” The Rev. Harold Turpin, Seventh Presbyterian pastor, advocated economic peace as a means toward material prosperity. “Sweatshops and labor demonstrations can be eliminated if Christian ideals are pursued,” he said. “Labor difficulties are an indication of the need for social regeneration. Society as well as the individual must have a change of heart.”
TOWN UPSET BY HOGS ON RAMPAGE
VISALIA, Cal, Sept. 6 (P. P).— Residents are not yet fully recovered after a sudden stampede by 89 squealing, grunting hogs which overran the town when a stock truck overturned. The porkers took over the fown for a brief period, disrupting city peace and quiet until cerralled. Six fugitives remained at large after an all night search. Their escape was the first in a series of incidents. The truck overturned after a collision with an automobile driven by Constable R. C. Brown, who had in custody William Marshall. Marshall, after being treated at the Visalia hospital
escape but was recaptured. In righting the truck, Percy Thurber of Fresno sufiered a crushed foot. Two other cars were
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| Hutson Sees Unity of Uionists As Bar to Dictator in Nation
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unin because it meant the blacklist and the refusal to hire.” “The labor movement sprang from deep convictions of liberty and freedom,” he said. “The laboring man resolved that he was not.to be a slave to an unknown master, the machine. It becamé apparent that men must deal with employers through agents of their own selection. Employers were long to recognize this principle. “For many years the Government had refused to give an impartial earing to the rights of labor,” Mr. utson declared. “In many fragic fnstances, Govérnment agencies were used fo break the spirit of labor. “Many employers regarded cheap labor as an asset, but the depres-
have purchasing power, the entire industrial system will collapse.” ‘The commissioner said five years ago the nation was on the verge of a revolution but “we were saved from this danger by a new conception of government.” Mr. Hutson described the mini-
CHILD CRIME WAVE REPORTED IN VIENNA |
VIENNA, Sept. 6 (U.P.).—Juvenile delinquencies have increaséd more than 100 per cent in the past year as compared to only 1 or 2 per cent among adults here. This was revealed today in Juvenile Court when a gang of schoolboys who called themselves “The Peoples Home Freebooters” were accused of committing numerous thefts and burglaries. The prosecutor decried the neglect of parents who allowed their children to stray in the streets at late hours and find unwelcome companions. : The leader of this schoolboy gang, a surly lad of 16, and his pal, Lieutenant Franx, 15, were given suspended sentences of six and four weeks, respectively.
‘WOODEN . NICKEL’ SOUGHT IN TEXAS
DALLAS, Tex., Sept. 6 (U. P.) — Mrs. Madeline Tutcher of BrookIyn, N. Y., a collector of coins, “wooden nickel”
center. She wrote the Dallas Chamber of Commerce, saying, “I saw in a newspaper that Jou have some wooden money in ‘circulation in Dallas.” Mrs. Tutcher inclosed $1, with
which she asked chambeér officials |
to buy some of the “money” and send to her for her coin collection. Miss Ethel Rucker, of the chamber’s information department, promised to head a search for the alleged “wooden nickels,” but was dubious of finding any. STRUCK BY FOUL BALL Drew Lacey, 37, 1529 College Ave., who received cuts and a possible bone fracture yesterday when he was struck by a foul ball while watching a baseball game at Riverside Park, was reported in fair condition in City Hospital today.
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list. Labor had won its bill of rights,” he said. 131 Cases Adjusted The commissioner reviewed the work of the state labor division, expiaining that no demands are made fcr acceptance of the commission's decisions. : “The mediators merely point out ways in which adjustments can be effected.” he said. The commissioner pointed out that the state labor division, since it was established April 1, had received 230 cases involving more than 7% wo workers. Of these, 181 cases hive been adjusted, enabling 65,000
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